ICE BREAKER PROCUREMENT

09.08.2011

With the Swedish icebreaker Oden unavailable this season the United States programme is currently considering a number of potential options to break a channel into McMurdo Sound to enable the resupply of both McMurdo Station and Scott Base. In the event another Ice breaker cannot be found this will have a potentially significant impact on both the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons.  In the meantime Antarctica New Zealand is planning for a full summer season as usual.